Artistic Director Lilli Hinstin and the Locarno Festival selection film committee today released a shortlist of twenty full length features that will receive support for their teams who were forced to stop working due to Covid. The lucky winners will receive finance going forward.
The eclectic line-up mixes leading artists on the festival circuit, as well as emerging talents, and includes award-winning directors such as Lucrecia Martel/Zama, Lav Dias/The Woman Who Left, Miguel Gomes/Arabian Nights and Lisandro Alonso/Jauja . And their films will be judged on 15 August by a panel of filmmakers to be announced in early July 2020. As usual the edgy, pioneering spirit which has always been the hallmarks of Locarno is alive and kicking in all of these projects.
Chocobar by Lucrecia Martel – Argentina/USA/The Netherlands
Cidade;Campo by Juliana Rojas – Brazil –
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (The Fabric of the Human Body) Verena Paravel/Lucien Castaing-Taylor – France/USA
Eureka by Lisandro Alonso – France/Germany/Portugal/Mexico/Argentina – Produced by: Luxbox: Fiorella Moretti and Hédi Zardi, Komplizen, Rosa Filmes, Mr. Woo, 4L
Human Flowers of Flesh by Helena Wittmann – Germany/France
I Come From Ikotun by WANG Bing – France/China
Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon (When The Waves Are Gone) by Lav Diaz
Nowhere Near by Miko Revereza – Philippines/Mexico/USA
Petite Solange (Little Solange) by Axelle Ropert – France
Selvajaria (Savagery) by Miguel Gomes – Portugal/France/Brazil/China/Greece
These are the 10 projects from Switzerland:
Azor by Andreas Fontana – Switzerland/Argentina/France
Ein Stück Himmel (A Piece of Sky) by Michael Koch
Far West by Pierre-François Sauter
A Flower in the Mouth by Eric Baudelaire
L’Afrique des femmes by Mohammed Soudani
Les Histoires d’amour de Liv S. by Anna Luif – Switzerland
LUX by Raphaël Dubach and Mateo Ybarra – Switzerland
Olga by Elie Grappe – Switzerland/France
Unrueh (Unrest) by Cyril Schäublin – Switzerland
Zahorí by Marí Alessandrini
FILMS AFTER TOMORROW | LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2020